misblame

present singular third person misblames · participle present misblaming · participle past misblamed · past misblamed

1. To blame wrongly; to blame one who is not guilty.

   I need to remember that I am responsible for my feelings. I have often misblamed another for my bad emotional state.

   1983, Beth Hammond, Lord, Help Me!-- the Desperate Dieter, page 66

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   It would focus rather on those who in the terrible spotlight of hindsight could be misblamed for the tragedies in the first place. Americans in Vietnam, unilateralists in Rhodesia, those who maintain the modern partitions of an ancient Holy Land.

   1981, Michael Spence Lowdell Morris, The Morality of Brutality, page 6

   The latter group misinterprets ambiguous social stimuli, misblames others, and often responds with inappropriate anger-aggravated hostility.

   2013, Philip David Zelazo, The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology, Vol. 2